Sustainability

Pratt Industries has a huge recycling program. In fact its raw material is old corrugated containers, but you wouldn't know it. I can remember standing next to the conveyor belt as bales upon bales of paper were first passed over a magnet, then dumped into a huge kettle and slowly mixed into a milky concoction, then viola, paper. If I recall correctly 50 tons a day went up that conveyor.

Pratt Industries pays money for those old boxes and IF your throwing them away in a dumpster, your losing money. Throwing old boxes in a dumpster is what the dumpster people want you to do. Nobody breaks them down and it helps the dumpster fill up quicker, hence more pick-ups.

It baffles me to this day, how all the geniuses at Pratt couldn't offer a recycling and corrugated packaging program that combined both.

But here's a tip: Recycling companies like Pratt will pay you for those old corrugated containers and office paper makes a fine corrugated box as well. So get on the Green band wagon because it may save you money, and you can throw around big words like sustainability.